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|title=Hans Herzl, Son of Theodor Herzl, Commits Suicide After Funeral of Sister Paulina
|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/hans-herzl-son-of-theodor-herzl-commits-suicide-after-funeral-of-sister-paulina
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}}</ref> Hans At the age of 20 he felt unable to form a true relationship with a woman. Perhaps it was treated by [[Carl Gustav Jung| Karl Jung]] after his because of the circumcision, after which he was able to flirt with girlsunderwent at the age of 15.<refname="shavit2000">{{REFnews
|title=The Doomed Dynasty
|url=https://archive.jewishagency.org/herzl/content/25465/
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}}</ref> Hans was treated by [[Carl Gustav Jung| Karl Jung]] after his circumcision, after which he was able to flirt with girls.<ref name="shavit2000"/>
He never was able to overcome the physical and psychic [[trauma]] of his circumcision. He never married, nor did he seem to have an occupation. According to Singer, "[h]e ultimately settled in London, where he earned a meager living translating his father’s writings, but the work was intermittent and he struggled financially all his life."<ref name="suicide1930" />
His sister, Pauline, died at Bordeaux, France in 1930 when he was 39. After the funeral, Hans used a firearm to take his own life in his hotel room.<ref name="suicide1930" /> <ref name="jta1930" />{
== Family ==
|publisher=Shapell Manuscript Collection. SMF
|date=2013-12-03
}}</ref> resenting the way he had been persuaded to be [[circumcised]],<ref>{{REFjournal
|quote=He told the curious fact that he had not been circumcised at birth but had undergone circumcision when he was 13 while he was living in London. He declared he resented this, which, he said antagonized him against the synagogue.
|title=Hans Herzl, Son of Theodor Herzl, Commits Suicide After Funeral of Sister Paulina
|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency
|date=1930-09-18
}}</ref> and became successively a Baptist, then a Catholic, and flirted with other Protestant denominations. He sought a personal salvation for his own religious needs and a universal solution, as had his father, to Jewish suffering caused by [[antisemitism]]. Hans shot himself to death on the day of his sister Paulina's funeral; he was 39 years old.<ref>{{REFweb
|last=Spiro (Rabbi)
|first=Ken
==Burial==
Hans was buried in a Jewish cemetery at Bordeaux along with his sister Pauline.<ref name="suicide1930" /> However, in 2004 the Israeli government had the remains of Pauline and Hans exhumed and reburied in the national cemetery on Mount Herzl near the grave of their father, Theodor Herzl.<ref name="suicide1930" />
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